THE Caloocan City government, through the efforts of the City Health Department and City Engineering Department, completed the construction and inaugurated the new Bagong Silang Malasakit Medical Center, in a ceremony led by Mayor Along Malapitan.
Situated strategically, the 280-square meter, two-storey health center aims to provide free quality healthcare services including immunizations, nutrition and diet services, natal consultations, animal bite, cervical and HIV screenings, anti-tuberculosis programs, and family planning.
The mayor celebrated the successful start of the facility’s operations while highlighting the sheer number of citizens which will be served by the new health center.
Malapitan then assured the community that the new medical center and competent staff will be able to augment existing health facilities and programs in the area and encouraged everyone to avail of the said services for the benefit of their families.
“Inaasahan po natin na ang bagong Malasakit Health Center na ito ay mas palalakasin pa ang mga programang naitatag na natin, lalo na po at batid natin na nag-aadjust pa ang lahat sa mga bagong barangay na nabuo dito sa Bagong Silang,” Malapitan said.
City’s first-ever virtual reality laboratory launched
A first virtual reality (VR) laboratory has been launched by the Malapitan administration at a public elementary school in a bid to provide new educational facilities to help students and teachers with alternative modes of learning delivery.
The VR laboratory, which includes several computer units and ‘top-of-the-line’ equipment, will be used to conduct more accurate, exciting, and safe experiments for young students especially at Amparo Elementary School.
The city chief executive said that his administration has been continuously strengthening the education system in the city.
Malapitan also made sure that the fundamental needs of both teachers and learners were always provided by the city government.
He stressed that it’s been his priority to establish more new learning facilities for students, “so that opportunities for growth and discovery are already available to them at their young age.”
The Caloocan mayor, seeking a second term in the May 12 midterm elections, told Good Riddance that more VR laboratories would be established by his administration in other public elementary and high schools in the near future.
